WATER WALK - VIRGINIA TO NORTH CAROLINA, USA By Crystal Cavalier-Keck I was born and raised in the rolling hills of the Piedmont area of North Carolina, roughly Northern Alamance County. My family is from this area spanning back 400 years, and before that we migrated from the Ohio valley region. Most of my family is Siouan, however due to

LAND WISDOM AND THE SPINE OF ATHENS By Georgia Dousikou “This landscape is an ancestor who has seen it all, has known it all…” Kostas Ouranis, Greek poet, travel writer and journalist. This initiative arose out of a deep calling to reconnect nature with culture in Greece. To welcome the wisdom of the land and the authentic nature of every

THE CAPE FEAR RIVER WATCH By Audrey Dunn, Outreach & Programs Officer, Cape Fear River Watch When I first accepted an Environmental Education Americorps position at Cape Fear River Watch, I honestly didn’t know the first thing about the water quality of the Cape Fear River Basin. I just thought it would be fun and relaxing to move to the

HYMN TO THE ATMOSPHERE by Claire Peaslee Let us now praise skywater, its elemental dance. Hola, aloha, halo, high and hello. Let us sing (ashay) of the everlasting gush of micro droplets, rising… rising… on geysers of tropical air. Marvel at the massive mists that perpetually yield to a muscular lift of solar heat near our planet’s

WHERE THERE ONCE WAS WATER Interview with Brittany App Filmmaker 'Where there once was Water' Can you share a story of when you first fell in love with water?  As it does, I think the falling in love took time. Through a long-running exploration and curiosity around water access, the sacredness of water, and ultimately much study and silence, I

FROM THE MINNESOTA HOME TEAM By Marian Moore The Mississippi River where Enbridge plans to cross, photo by Marian Moore     It is December 14, 2020, and here I am, a sixty-four- year-old woman, in a jail cell in northern Minnesota’s Aitkin County during a global pandemic.  I have just been strip-searched and required to wear brown, jail-issued,